“Why am I telling myself that Ive been harmed?”
Understandably so, I think.
I had worked ceaselessly for a year and a half on this book.
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I had gone to extreme measures to protect the exclusives and original reporting featured in its pages.
Yet a chunk of that work was undone in a matter of seconds by a jealous and unethical person.
So, like I said, I was upset.
I also had the goods.
The sweet part of the bittersweetness of being wronged is the adrenaline rush of obsessing and defending yourself.
Seeing it all land exactly as planned?
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Nor is there any ownership of the ideas.
But it was thepracticeof the philosophy that acted as the check to my anger.
Stoicism is a philosophy you engage with daily, or repeatedly throughout the day.
The right choice for me was clear too: Let it go.
It consumes us, takes over our body, and changes the very temperature at which we operate.
I was very much in the throes of a feverish anger in late February.
Philosophy was designed to help us break the fever of our destructive emotions and impulses.
You let your mind question and then override your impulses.
All I had needed was a day or two for that process to happen.
By the third day, I was over it and had redirected my energies at something productive.
The person who does wrong, does wrong to themselves.
They had taken care of it themselves.
